41.   Jospin leads a leftist coalition of Socialists, Communists and Greens who won parliamentary elections last year, unseating the ruling center-right coalition.

42.   Leading Greens on Tuesday urged Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to revamp his leftist coalition after the environmental party scored well in European Parliament elections.

43.   Like his predecessor, Zielinski is the only non-aligned minister in the leftist coalition government of former communists and peasants.

44.   Leaders of both parties emerged from the Thursday talks saying they were committed to preserving the leftist coalition, and they had planned more discussions on Friday.

45.   Many thought the PRI stole the election from a leftist coalition headed by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas.

46.   Oleksy, who has denied the charges first made last month, has resisted calls by opposition parties and even from within his leftist coalition to step aside.

47.   Premier Lionel Jospin, whose Socialist-led leftist coalition came to power in June, had called for a suspension of privatization during his campaign.

48.   Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, whose Socialist-led leftist coalition came to power in June, had called for a suspension of privatization during his campaign.

49.   Premier Lionel Jospin, whose Socialist-led leftist coalition came to power in June, had called for a suspension of privatizations during his campaign.

50.   Seselj, the towering leader of the Serbian Radical Party, defeated Zoran Lilic, the candidate of the ruling leftist coalition, in presidential elections in September.